Sash holder



E. F. CHAFFEE sAsH Homan Feb. s, 1929. I 1,701,140

AFiled Dec. 17. i925 INVENTOR.

@zy-Mg@ A ATTORNEYS,

latented Feb. 5, 1929.

UNITED STATES EDWARD F. CHAFFEE, OF SYRACUSE, N EW YORK, ASSIGNOR TO THE O. `MI. EDWARDS COMPANY, INC., F SYRACUSE, NEW YORK, A CORPORATION OF NEW YORK.

snsn HOLDER.,

Application led December 17,- 1925. Serial No; 76,083.

This invention relates to window constructions and particularly to means for releasing the sash trom snug engagement with the iframe and the sill preliminary to lifting the sash.

The invention. consists in the novel `features and in the combinations and constructions hereinatter set forth and claimed.

ln describing-this invention reference is had to the accompanying drawings.

Figure 1 is a fragmentary front elevation of a window construction embodying this invention.

Figure 2 is a face sectional view on line 2-2 Figure 1.

Figure 3 is an interface view ot' the detached sash holder.

Figure 4 is an edge view of the detached sash holder, contiguous portions of the window and window frame being also shown.

This window construction comprises, generally, a Window frame formed with a guide including the usual outer stop, a sash movable along the frame, a combinedsash holder and window releasing means arranged to normally force the slash toward the stop, and when operated preliminarily to lifting the sash, to force the sash away 'from the stop and away from the sill of the frame.

The invention further includes the construction of a combined sash holder and starter whereby the sash is moved at a right angle to its plane, when the sash holder and starter is operated to lift the sash off the sill.

One form of combined sash holder and releasing means in which the window sash is forced by the releasing means away from the window stop as well as lifted off the sill, is shown in my pending application Sr. No. 66,702, filed November 4, 1925. The numeral 1 designates the window frame having the usual outer stop 2 which forms part of a guide 3 for the sash 4. The sash holder and releasing means comprises units located preferably at the inner lower corners of the sash, each unit being ot' the general construction shown in my Patent No. 1,349,046, Oct. 10, 1920, and in my application Sr. No. 667,496, filed October 9, 1923, with the sash releasing attachment of my present 'invention added thereto.

Each of the units comprises` a base or housing' 4 which encloses a recess 5 opening through the inner face of the housing 4. The base is mounted on the sash in such position as to close the open rear side of the recess. In addition the sash holder comprises a bolt 6 slidably mounted in the housing 4 and operated by the lever 7 pivoted at 8 in the housing 4 and having an angular arm 9 connected to the bolt to actuate it and also having a longer arm extending to, the outside o't the housing and normally arranged in juxtaposition to a stationary pinch` handle 10 on the housing 7. Each bolt 6 is beveled as at 11 andis engaged or coacts with a rack on the stop 2, having a complementary bevel tace 13, the bevel face 11 and 13 being so arranged that the bolt36 of each sash lock when thrust outwardly by its spring 14 forces the sash against the stop 2. y

The construction per se of the sash holder thus far described is old in so far as this invention is concerned. holder units 4 is provided` with sash rcleasing means which` operated when` the bolt 6 is withdrawn, and as here shown, this sash releasing means is actuated directly by lever 7.

The releasing` means of each sash holder is a pusher` rod-15 movable through a suitable passage in the loweryedge of the housingifl with itsinner or upper end arranged in theV path of the lever 7, and normally spaced apart from such lever. This pusher 15 is here shown as movable vertically and as coacting with the sill at its lower end inclined plane fashion to forcethe sash away from the stop 2, toward which said sash is moved by the beveling of the bolts 6. Pret erably both the sill and the lower end ofthe pusher rods 15 are Jformed with inclined planes, and therefore the `lower end of each rod 15v is beveled at 16 and coacts with a complementary downwardly beveled face 17 on the sill. Usually the sill is provided with metal blocks 18 which form seats for the pushers 15, and these seats or beveled jaws 17 are formed on the blocks.

In operation after the operator takes hold ofthe levers 7 of the sash holders and presses them toward the pinch handles 10, the bolt 6 of each sash holder is withdrawn, thus relieving the sash of the WedgingA force exerted by the bolts 6 tending to force the sash against the outer stop. After the bolts have been thus withdrawn the levers 7 engage the pusher rods 15 and force them downwardly causing the lower beveled ends Each ot the sash on the inner side of the sash and including a holding member and means extending along` the guise and eoaeting with said member, the holding member and said means being constructed to force the sash toward the outer stop, the sash holder further Comprising means for operating the holding member and a sash release arranged to press against the sill of the frame and to be operated by the operating means for the holding membein the releasing means and the sill being provided with faces arranged to act incline plane fashion on each other and force the sash away from the stop.

2. The window eonstrne'lion of claim l in which the sash release eomprises a rod arranged to push downwardly toward the sill and in which the sill and the lower end of the rod are provided with such faces arranged to aet incline plane fashion on each other. Y

3. A sash holder Comprising a easing, a holding member movable in the casing, a pushermovable downwardly in the easing toward the sill of the window frame, and an operating member carried by the easing for actuating the holder member andthe pusher, the pusher being provided with a bevel face at its lower end; in combination with a frame having means with which the holding member coacts to press the sash against the window stop, the sill of the frame having means eoacting with the beveled face of the pusher to withdraw the sash away from the stop when the operating member actuated.

4. A sash holder comprising a easing, a sash holding member movable in the easing, a releasing member and an operating member Carried by the carriage and arranged to aetnate the holding member te withdraw it and at the same time operate the releasing` member, the releasing member com prising a vertically sldable rod movable beyond the lower edge of the sash in combination with a window frame having means for eoaeting with the holding member whereby the sash is pressed toward the window stop by the engagement of the holding member with said means, and the sill is provided with a bevel face arranged to eoaet with 'the lower end of the rod to force the rod and the sill away from the stop when the operating member is actuated.

A sash holder comprising a casing, a holding` member movable in the easing, a pusher movable downwardly in the easing toward the sill of the window frame, and an operating member carried by the casingI for aetuating the holder member and the pusher, means on the sill for eoacting with the pusher, said means and the pusher having faces arranged to aet incline plane fashion te force the sash in a direction at an angle to the general plane of the sash.

ln testimony whereof, I have hereunto signed my name, at Syracuse, in the county of Onondaga, and in the State of New York, thlis 7th day of December, 1925.

EDWARD F. CHAFFEE. 

